wildadj. 1. (of a namestring) using an implementation-defined syntax for naming files, which might ``match'' any of possibly several possible filenames, and which can therefore be used to refer to the aggregate of the files named by those filenames. 2. (of a pathname) a structured representation of a name which might ``match'' any of possibly several pathnames, and which can therefore be used to refer to the aggregate of the files named by those pathnames. The set of wildpathnames includes, but is not restricted to, pathnames which have a component which is :wild, or which have a directory component which contains :wild or :wild-inferors. See the functionwild-pathname-p.